Xxy (2007) (Dvd)Xxy (2007) (Dvd)
UPC Number: 616892965022
Actors: Ricardo Darín, German Palacios, Jean Pierre Reguerraz, Ines Efron, Martin Piroyanski
Directors: Lucia Puenzo
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Language: English
Region: Region 1
Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
Number of discs: 1
Studio: Film Movement
Release date: October 14, 2008
Run time: 91 minutes
Product Description
For just about everybody, adolescence means having to confront a number of choices and life decisions, but rarely any as monumental as the one facing 15 year-old Alex (In?s Efron,) who was born an intersex child.* As Alex begins to explore her sexuality, her mother invites friends from Buenos Aires to come for a visit at their house on the gorgeous Uruguayan shore, along with their 16-year-old son ?lvaro (Mart?n Piroyanski.) Alex is immediately attracted to the young man, which adds yet another level of complexity to her personal search for identity, and forces both families to face their worst fears.
*ABOUT THE TERM INTERSEX:
In biology, 'hermaphrodite' means an organism that has both 'male' and 'female' sets of reproductive organs, however in humans, there are no actual 'hermaphrodites' in this sense. In the past it has been common to call people with intersex conditions 'hermaphrodites' because intersex bodies share sex chromosomes and characteristics of both genders and do not neatly conform to what doctors define as the 'normal' male or female bodies. Yet the label, 'hermaphrodite' is misleading, mythologizing, and often stigmatizing; members of the community prefer the term 'intersex people' or 'people with intersex conditions/experiences.'
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